Everything's shaking already, vibrating at its own natural frequency. This stone, the wood in the trees... I believe you can learn to sense those frequencies around you and resonate with them so that not everything is shaking, only what you choose.
- Something bad happens every time I feel settled somewhere. I'm twenty five and I have never spent more than two years anywhere. The second I made friends at the orphanage; gone. And God forbid I called a foster family home; pack your bags. I got the news on my birthday once, which is a complete farce because I don't even know when I was born."
"I'm so sorry."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. was the closest I ever came to having a family. I belonged there, saw what I could be. Even that ended with agents hunting me through the woods."
"We're not going to turn on you, or abandon you. This is a safe place."
"See, you say that but I know you're not being straight with me. Why do you care if I stay or go? And why are you..."
"July second. You were born on July second.
- There was a woman once, she didn't trust my judgement. So she stole a batch of Terrigen Crystals and fled. Got caught up with some criminals in Bahrain. Her name was Eva Belyakov. Russian, strong-willed like you.
- Let me protect my family the way I couldn't before.
- —Calvin Zabo to Jiaying